Jimmy Carter | A world response to Syria

Airstrike isn't answer this time

2:55 AM,
Sep. 12, 2013

Jimmy Carter

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Jimmy Carter
| Special to The Washington Post

The only way to be assured that Syrian chemical weapons will not be used in the future is not through a military strike but through a successful international effort.

Regardless of the postponed congressional vote regarding the use of military force, other actions should be taken to address the situation in Syria, including an urgent effort to convene without conditions the long-delayed peace conference the United States and Russia announced in May. A resolution in the U.N. General Assembly to condemn any further use of chemical weapons, regardless of perpetrator, would be approved ...